My Favorite Books

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams

Quotes:

"I only decide about my Universe. My Universe is my eyes and my ears. Aything else is hearsay."

"The ruler of the Universe dozed lightly in his chair. After a while he played with the pencil and paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react."

"England no longer existed. He'd got that-somehow he'd got it. He tried again. America, he thought, has gone. He couldn't grasp it. He decided to start smaller again. New York has gone. No reaction. He'd never seriously believed it existed anyway. The dollar, he thought, has sunk for ever. Slight tremor there. Every Bogart movie has been wiped, he said to himself, and that gave him a nasty knock. McDonald's he thought. There is no longer such thing as a McDonald's hamburger. He passed out. When he came round a second later he found he was sobbing for his mother."

"Since we decided a few weeks ago to adopt the leaf as athe legal tender, we have, of course, all become immensely rich. But we have also run into a small inflation problem on the account of the high level of leaf availability, which means that, I gather, the current going rate has something like three deciduous forests buying one ship's peanut. So in order to obviate this problem and effectively revalue the leaf, we are about to embark on a massive defoliation campaign, and ... er, burn down all of the forests. I think you'll all agree that's a sensible move under the circumstances."